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"It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book."
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"The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs."
"The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority."
"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."
"President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how."
"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."
"When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back."
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"The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above."
"Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature."
"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives."
"The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore."
"A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends."
"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."
"When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin."
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